Dropping Support For Java 5? / February 05, 2009

September 18, 2009

Poll Result: Java Is Most Preeminent in Europe. Some voters in this past week's java.net poll questioned whether the question could be answered, but the result showed that a plurality of voters considered Europe to be region where Java has the greatest market share among competing technologi...

September 17, 2009

Sun Collaborates with Software Freedom International to Connect More than 25,000 Developers and Students in 30 Countries for Software Freedom Day 2009. Building on its commitment to empower developers and students across the globe, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) is sponsoring more than 300 community style events in more than 30 countries for Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 19, 2009. W...

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February 05, 2009

Dropping support for Java 5?

category: Java Technology

So far, I've maintained compatibility with Java 5 for my stuff (all the "blueMarine cluster": blueMarine, Mistral, jrawio, ForceTen, OpenBlueSky and the young blueOcean). Given that people who upgraded to Java 5 don't have much troubles in going to J...

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Grizzly Logo Contest: find a logo for the monster!

category: Java Technology

To make the project more fun and appealing, we have launched a contest for project Grizzly: find us a logo! The deadline is February 28. Let's the artist in you express herself/himself!

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Golden Rules for Vibrant Contribution-based Communities

category: Java Technology

I just posted my account of these "golden rules" on my blogs.sun.com blog. Have fun reading it. I would be interested in any review comments or suggestions.

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Blog's transition

category: Java Technology

I'm moving my blog to the new location at http://drcos.blogspot.com/

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There is no JavaFX Mobile. There is only JavaFX.

category: Java Technology

I know I haven't been blogging, twittering, or doing the FaceBook very much lately. That's because I've been very, very busy working. As we promised last summer, the next release of JavaFX coming out soon. For desktop developers you won't...

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Using Sun's Virtualization software xVM VirtualBox on MacbookPro for Windows 7 Beta

category: Java Technology

Description of steps and my experiences of using Sun Microsystems free and open source Virtualization software xVM VirtualBox on my new MacBook Pro for installing Windows 7 Beta

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Salvation

category: Java Technology

The future of Swing in JDK 7... also: Java Today: Swing plans, Project Jigsaw launched, and Duke's Award nominations open Weblogs: PHP on Grizzly, XSLT formatting of java.net issues, and Hudson popularity stats Forum Posts: Option element titles, par...

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Java Mobility Podcast 70: Bit-side

category: Java Technology

Thomas Schüppel of bit-side talks with Terrence about his companies experience developing on mobile devices.

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Mark Wielaard: IcedTea 1.4 with XRender support

category: Developers

IcedTea 1.4 got released this week. And while it is full of new exciting stuff, you really should check out the XRender support by Clemens Eisserer. Especially if you often use java through remote X. It just flies! Trying it out is easy as soon as t...

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Jeroen Frijters: IKVM 0.38 Update 1 RC 1

category: Developers

A fairly serious (because of its potentially elusive nature) bug was found in 0.38 and I forgot to update the version number of IKVM.OpenJDK.ClassLibrary.dll in the previous release candidate, so here is a new release candidate.

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